Wellness Checks: Police Unsurprisingly and Lives Matter

wellness checks: On June 19, 2020, CTV released an analysis of the last 100 people shot and killed by police, according to Rabble. Unsurprisingly for many of us, a disproportionate number of people killed were young men who were visible minorities, predominantly Black and policing impacts every province in Canada and has resulted in death and injury and long term physical and emotional trauma which communities are fighting to address. Five of the people listed above were killed after the police were called in for wellness checks by family or friends. Black Lives Matter is calling for the defunding and disarming of police and this applies to Canada as much as the United States. According to her interview, the demands focus on two areas, police accountability and defunding the police and re-allocating the funding. In an interview, Sandy Hudson, co-founder of Black Lives Matter in Canada, lays out the demands of the movement across Canada and the unique challenges we face in this country. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.